different between narg vs darg

English

Etymology

An acronym for "not a real gentleman" Someone who discusses matters of business when not working. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

narg (plural nargs)

1. (Internet) A nerd, someone with extensive knowledge of a particular technical field.
   • 1994 November 7, "purvis" (username), "Postal Tiddlywinks", in alt.games.tiddlywinks, Usenet:

     Perhaps I can be of some assistance here, as I appear to be a member of the Rules subcommittee and am therefore (and for other reasons to numerous to mention) a narg.

   • 1997, November 4, Sunday lunch, cam.misc

     I don't work in the computer industry, either, but all my friends are sad nargs who sit around talking about things like HHGTTG.

   • 1998, June 11, Unusual job for talented computer programmer, cam.misc

     ... most of my adult life going out with a succession of computer programmers, physicists, engineers, budding mathematicians and general nargs of both sexes.

   • 2001 February 2, "Vicky Larmour" (username), "Any americans reading this? - HELP!!!!", in cam.misc, Usenet:

     > Tried that myself as a kid (must be an inquisitive nargy engineering

     > thing).

     Oi! Brown! Are you calling me a narg? Oh well, fair enough I suppose :-)

Derived terms

• nargery

References

• Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (29 December 2003) , “narg”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7

Anagrams

• ARNG, gRNA, garn, gnar, gran, grna, rang

English

Etymology 1

First attested in late Middle English; a syncopic form of daywork, developed through the series of forms: daywork ? daywerk ? daywark ? dawark ? *da’ark ? dark ? darg.

Alternative forms

• dawerk, dawark [15th century]
• daurk [18th century]
• daark, dark, darrak, darroch, dargue, daurg [19th century]

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: därg, IPA^(key): /d???/

Noun

darg (plural dargs)

1. (in Scotland and northern English dialects) A day's work.
2. (in Scotland and northern English dialects) A defined quantity or amount of work, or of the product of work, done in a certain time or at a certain rate of payment; a task.

Derived terms

References

• “Darg” listed on page 33 of volume III (D–E), § i (D) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1897]
• “darg” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Etymology 2

The ? of dog (d?g) has merged with ä in many American dialects.

Noun

darg (plural dargs)

1. (dialect) Informal form of dog.
   • 1897, Herbert George Wells, The Invisible Man; Chapter III:

     Hall had stood gaping. "He wuz bit," said Hall. "I’d better go and see to en," and he trotted after the stranger. He met Mrs. Hall in the passage. "Carrier’s darg," he said "bit en."

Anagrams

• Gard, Grad, drag, gard, grad

Scots

Etymology

Alteration of dark, a contraction of dawark, daywerk ‘day's work’.

Noun

darg (plural dargs)

1. a day's work (especially agricultural labour)
2. an amount or number of something produced in a day

Westrobothnian

Noun

darg

1. Alternative spelling of dårg

Verb

darg

1. Alternative spelling of dårg